Good Turn - Marcus Aurelius

Apr 1, 2014
• Stephen Houser
in quotes

Such There Be, Who when They Have Done a Good Turn to Any,
Are Ready to set them on the score for it, and to require
retaliation. Others there be, who though they stand not
upon retaliation, to require any, yet they think with themselves
nevertheless, that such a one is their debtor, and they know as
their word is what they have done. Others again there be, who when
they have done any such thing, do not so much as know what they have
done; but are like unto the vine, which beareth her grapes, and
when once she hath borne her own proper fruit, is contented and
seeks for no further recompense.